trillion dollar bill will ever pass, the mission misses significantly. the best chance of getting it done is for that more conservative bill on the larger more progressive bill to move together. if i were to house republican leader, i would look at that and say, you know what let s let enough house republican votes for this, again lots of republicans like that. legislation lets another republican vote for this, that it passes. because we don t mind this bill, it s fairly conservative bill it lines up with a lot of conservative priorities, and we can thereby remove all the leverage the progressives have, the larger bill will never pass. this whole well with a waste of time for the democrats. and will get something to brag about next week, next year. for our reelection campaigns in our home state. why is that not alive possibility? that seems rational to me? i actually had a similar thought, rachel, a few hours ago. why aren t republican leaders providing some votes to pass the infrastru
from police officers, and from information that is online, on facebook, on twitter posting photographs and so on. we re just trying to fill in the details now. we are trying to figure out exactly what the connections are between the trump entourage and trump white house and the oath keepers, the three percenters, different armed insurrectionist fwrups and who paid for the attack on the u.s. congress? you don t knock over the capitol of the united states of america for free. provocative point and one we ll continue to follow with interest. because you are here, we didn t lose you because you are here talking with me i assume that means you are not expecting a vote in the next few minutes on the bipartisan infrastructure package in the house. do you have any updates, any sense on how this is going to unfold? we have not been noticed yet for votes this evening.
fear as you point out, is if the infrastructure bill passes than centrist democrats in the house in the senate will bolt. they will say, we didn t commit to doing this other thing. or we would like to shrink it, cut it in half. centralist democrats said that s not what they re planning to do. congressman josh gottheimer has been pushing for the vote. he said he s committed to reconciliation. bill the progressives are lest their more worried about centrist democratic senators, two in particular. kristen sinema and joe manchin. manchin came out with his plan for the first time today, his price tag publicly at least, 1.5 trillion dollars. which is a far cry from the three and a half trillion that the vast majority of democrats. once senator cinema has not so ever number is. she s not given any number at all. that opaqueness is only reaffirming the desire among progress is to hold up the infrastructure bill. among republicans, there s a group called the problem solvers caucus in the hous
he said he was unhappy about these late night closed door talks. that seems significant given what a driving force the progressives have been in the house and what a progressive icon senator sanders is not only in the country but to progressive democrats on capitol hill. is that significant? what do we think is going to happen tonight? it is significant, rachel. senator sanders says this is an absurd way to do business, a direct quote from him. that they are trying to negotiate a multi trillion dollars bill in one night to have a vote on the infrastructure bill. he does in the believe that bill should go forward to a vote today and if it comes to a vote he is urging his colleagues to vote no. that is significant because a lot of house progressives look up to him and respect him and that is significant. not what happens tonight is highly unclear. officially the house of representatives is saying no votes until 10:00 p.m. but there is still expectation they will pass the infrastructure
because these two conservative democratic senators joe manchin, of west virginia and kristen sinema of west virginia. they now basically alone have been dragging out negotiations on the larger budget bill for weeks and weeks, with no apparent progress, and no real bottom line or finish line that either of them seem able to articulate in public. and that is why just tonight the spirit of last night s congressional baseball game took to the potomac. several of senator joe manchin s constituents from west virginia voted up to him today. they paddled a kayak up to the hospital where senator joe manchin lives when he is in washington. do you see him in the back of the boat there? the constituents are in the kayak, and in the little boat. and they have voted, is that the word? they have voted in themselves up to him to the back of his vote to talk to him, to plead to him, to get on board with the budget. to get on board with president